An evaluation of the effect of response formats on data quality in web surveys

Social Science Computer Review

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 471-484

  Heerwegh, Dirk ^a   Loosveldt, Geert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Online research; Response formats; Survey data quality; Web survey

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036436378     PISSN: 08944393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/089443902237323     Document Type: Article

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